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--- "Mitt Romney Made Millions from the Rescue of Detroit" as 25,000 GM jobs went to China

--- " Investigative reports reveal how Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney made some $15 million on the auto bailout and that three of Romney’s top donors made more than $4 billion for their hedge funds from the bailout.

--- As part of a massive government bailout, U.S. taxpayers paid $12 billion to save auto parts maker Delphi Corporation. Out of that taxpayer money, three billionaires and their partners took in a profit of over $4 billion. One big winner, with a profit of over 4,000 percent, were the billionaires’ silent partners, Ann and Mitt Romney. The Romneys made at least $15 million, and as much as $115 million.

--- Our investigation began in Africa in the Congo. This is Greg Palast reporting. We are hunting for a vulture, a so-called vulture fund financier, this man, Paul Singer. Singer’s vulture fund seized $90 million out of foreign aid given the Congo, which could have been used to end a cholera epidemic. Singer’s vulture tactics are now outlawed in England and all over the world, but not in the U.S.A., certainly not here in Detroit, where we found Singer’s vulture fund feasting on the corpse of another victim, the once-world-leading Delco auto parts division of General Motors.

--- DELCO AD: Power that can’t get old before it’s sold. Delco dry charge battery, made by the Delco-Remy Division of General Motors.

--- So far, Romney and partners have pocketed over $4 billion. Then the billionaires gave Romney a million dollars each for the Republican campaigns. Nevertheless, Romney accused Obama of conflicts.

--- Documents reveal that a government bailout check was in fact cashed by none other than Ann Romney. It says that Ann Romney had a hunk of Mitt’s vast fortune in Elliott Management, Paul Elliott Singer’s vulture fund. Working our way between the limousines in front of his office, we wanted to ask Mr. Singer about his special financial deal with the Romneys. But he turned us down. The Romney campaign refuses to tell us exactly how much they made from the bailout, nor reveal their 2009 taxes.

--- ANN ROMNEY: We’ve given all you people need to know and understand about our financial situation and about how we live our life.

--- To cover up their payday and avoid taxes, the vulture funds have moved the headquarters of Delphi from Michigan to Jersey—not New Jersey, but the Isle of Jersey off the coast of France, a notorious tax haven.

--- Governor Romney wrote, "Let Detroit go bankrupt." And it did. Of the 25,000 UAW members at Delphi, every single one lost their job. Delphi once had 29 factories in the U.S., now just one. Today, GM still gets its parts from Delphi, shipped from the plants that the Romney hedge funds have moved to the People’s Republic of China.

-- Continued and is juicy.

It makes average Americans look very naivete to consider that this is the status quo with these kind of people and a major driver toward "Supply side economic/trick down" money policy that rewards these people at great cost to the American people.

Also, the bankruptcy judge could have ruled for the bankruptcy to be Chapter 13, which is liquidation. All assets sold and distributed to creditors

The actual debt relief received via bankruptcy is offset by huge legal and accounting fees. I was with a company that went thru and emerged from bankruptcy. When all was said and done, it would have been far better not to declare.

Yay, misinformation! We can all find links to support any statistics we want without giving any context to the value of the numbers. A limited poll from Rasmussen has very little bearing on how the election will turn out. As far as the EC is concerned I'm surprised 'The Examiner' believes Romney won Virginia from Obama.

I know, I've been reading your and SP's posts and think it's a fun way to post and argue. So what I said is still true - Romney is behind in every poll. It's okay, though - after four more years of Obama you'll be in an even better place and be in an even bigger tizzy and can start arguing over how terrible having a strong market and positive social steps have been. Just like the last four years it all because of an improving market and having more rights returned to the people.

I saw that comment as a personal attack. I will continue to remove comments like that, just as I do with every comment I see as a personal attack against you. And there are no protected posters. Everyone has agreed to the terms of service, and is expected to abide by them.

BABBOY: Kansas used to have 7 votes and actually 8 at one time, but now only 6. Shows the irrevelence of the State in terms of national politics. It appears that the Electoral College may be the deciding factor in this election regardless of the popular vote outcome. In Kansas, really no one's vote really counts in the Presidental Election, Democrat votes are lost in the GOP landslide, and the same issue if you a a GOP voter, your vote is lost because of the same reason. This year, it appears that an individual's vote really counts only in the 7 or 8 swing states, the rest of the States are a foregone conclusion. If the old tenant of "One Individual, One Vote" really means something, the Electoral College concept is fraudulent. Two more equitable solutions would be (1) requiring the individual States to vote in the Electoral College by assigining votes based on proportionality or better yet (2) do away with the Electoral College and utilize the National Popular Vote to determine the winner.

Exactly. The President should be elected by the popular vote and NOT the electoral college. It's obscene that we're still carrying that dead horse around in 2012. Oh, and thank you for your service to our country, rabbit.